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Novi

#2,560 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Nova

Novi has been given to 376 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #2,560 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Novi, 2025

1 in 48,000

Novi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Novi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nova

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Novi means

Novi is a variant of Nova.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Novi → Nova. The family’s meaning is “new”, recorded in English with the source elements nova.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nova.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 361 girls were recorded with the name Novi between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,560 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,442 in 2020 to #2,560 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,973 in 2015 to #2,560 in 2025.

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Novi between 2016 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #13,517 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Novi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,560
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Novi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Novi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Novis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Novi was born before 2022 — so the typical Novi is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
74.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
361
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 74.8% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Novi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+601
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,882
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,413
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (69)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,560
2025

Spellings of Novi

Novi is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 25.8% against Novi's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Novi is used

Across 1910–2025, Novi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 994,879 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Novi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Novi around the world

Where Novi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Novi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,560
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,882
Best rank ever
#2,560
2025
Peak year
2025
69 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
361
Count in 2025
69

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,517
2021
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Novi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Novi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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